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Mills College English Professor Stephen Ratcliffe Releases Reading the Unseen: (Offstage) Hamlet

November 13, 2009 - Mills College English professor and acclaimed poet Stephen Ratcliffe has released his newest book, Reading the Unseen: (Offstage) Hamlet (Denver: Counterpath Press, 2010), which explores the presence and significance of offstage action in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Read the full story


Mills College Cross Country Team Captures Cal Pac Conference Championship
Cyclones Qualify for NAIA Nationals on November 21, 2009

November 11, 2009 - The Mills College cross country team has captured the California Pacific Conference (Cal Pac) Championship, qualifying the team to represent Cal Pac at the 30th Annual Women’s National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) National Championships. The competition will take place on Saturday, November 21, 2009, in Vancouver, Washington. Read the full story


Mills College Celebrates 40th Anniversary of Ethnic Studies Department

November 4, 2009 - More than forty years after students staged sit-ins at Mills and other Bay Area colleges to demand that academia include the perspective of students of color in the classroom, the Mills College Ethnic Studies Department has evolved into one of the longest-running and most innovative in the field. Read the full story


Mills College Art Professor Catherine Wagner Debuts Public Art Project for the City of Los Angeles

October 16, 2009 - Mills College art professor Catherine Wagner will debut Ghost Grove, a new public art project for the city of Los Angeles. The laser etched aluminum installation with orange-colored mylar circles, is located in the Ronald F. Deaton Civic Auditorium, a part of the new Los Angeles Police Department’s downtown headquarters. Read the full story


Mills College Launches Annual Concert Series with New Name—Mills Music Now

October 13, 2008 - Mills College celebrates more than 80 years of musical innovation with a new name for its annual concert series—Mills Music Now—and a stellar line-up of performers. Read the full story


Mills College Book Artist Julie Chen Featured on PBS Documentary

October 1, 2008 - Mills College assistant professor and book artist Julie Chen will be featured in Craft in America, a two-part television series premiering nationwide on PBS on Wed. Oct. 7, 2009. Read the full story


Mills College Journalism Instructors Win Top Awards Including Journalist of the Year Holly Kernan

September 29, 2009 - Holly Kernan, director of the Public Radio program at Mills College, has won top honor as Journalist of the Year from the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists in its 2009 Excellence in Journalism Awards. Journalism instructor Meredith May also won for feature writing. Read the full story


Mills Art History Professor Moira Roth Exhibits Work in Berkeley

September 28, 2009 - Today Mills College art history professor Moira Roth teams up with Pauline Oliveros and others for The Library of Maps: an Opera in Many Parts, an evening of storytelling, sounds, and dance at the Firehouse North gallery in Berkeley, CA. Read the full story


White House Reporter Helen Thomas Joins Congresswoman Barbara Lee in Conversation at Mills College

September 17, 2009 - Helen Thomas, the dean of the White House press corps will join Congresswoman and Mills College alumna Barbara Lee (Class of 1973) on Oct. 12 in a conversation to discuss Thomas' 60 years of covering presidential politics. All members of the public are invited to this free event from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm at the Littlefield Concert Hall at Mills College. Read the full story


Mills College French Professor Mehta Explores Caribbean Women's Voices

September 16, 2009 - Mills College French Professor Brinda J. Mehta has published her fourth book, Notions of Identity, Diaspora and Gender in Caribbean Women's Writing (New York: Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2009) focusing on the writings of women from Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Haiti. Read the full story


Mills College Alumnus Dave Brubeck to be Honored at Kennedy Center

September 15, 2009 - Jazz and classical pianist and composer and Mills College alumnus David Brubeck is among this year's recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, DC. Read the full story


Mills Math Professor Stankova Shares 10 Years of Math Circles

September 14, 2009 - For more than 10 years, Mills College math professor Zvezdelina Stankova has organized more than 350 lessons to hundreds of students, exposing them to a myriad of problem-solving techniques and mathematical topics to inspire them to become future math leaders. Read the full story


Environmental Movement Leader and Mills Alumna Stephanie Mills to Speak at Mills College 2009 Convocation

September 11, 2009 - Mills College celebrates the start of the academic year on Friday, Oct. 2, 2009 with a Convocation address delivered by world-renowned environmental movement pioneer and Mills alumna Stephanie Mills. The College's 2009 Convocation begins at 10:15 am in the Littlefield Concert Hall. Mills will receive an honorary degree. All members of the public are invited. Read the full story


Juliana Spahr Wins Prestigious Hardison Poetry Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library

August 31, 2009 - Mills College English Professor Juliana Spahr is the recipient of the 19th annual O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. The Hardison Prize is the only major American prize to recognize a poet’s teaching and work that “demonstrate the spirit of inquiry, imagination, daring, and scholarship” of Hardison, Jr.’s legacy. Read the full story


Stephanie Hanor Appointed as New Director of Mills College Art Museum

August 26, 2009 - Mills College proudly announces the appointment of Stephanie Hanor as the new director of the Mills College Art Museum. Hanor comes to Mills from the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego where she rose from assistant curator in 2001 to senior curator in 2004 and department head in 2007. Read the full story


U.S. News & World Report Ranks Mills 2nd Among Colleges in the West

August 20, 2009 - U.S. News & World Report has ranked Mills College second as a "Great Schools, Great Prices" choice among colleges and universities in the West. Read the full story


Mills College Opens a New Green Building for the Graduate School of Business

August 17, 2009 - Back to school this year at the Lorry I. Lokey Graduate School of Business (GSB) at Mills College means more than new laptops, economics textbooks, and charged Blackberries. Eighty-eight Mills MBA students will start classes on August 26 in a new 28,500-square-foot, state-of-the-art green building with dramatic floor-to-ceiling windows, a living green roof, and the latest in educational technology. Read the full story


Mills College to Open Student Health Center with Kaiser Permanente

August 12, 2009 - On August 17, Mills College will open a new student health center operated by Kaiser Permanente, the first Kaiser health center on a college campus in northern California. Read the full story


Mills College to Offer AC Transit Passes to Students

August 4, 2009 - Mills College will offer AC Transit passes to all undergraduate students starting in fall 2009, another in a series of moves to increase campus sustainability. Read the full story


Mills College Earns Nearly Perfect Green Rating from Princeton Review's Best Colleges

July 29, 2009 - Mills College has been named one of the Best 371 Colleges and one of the greenest colleges in the nation by the Princeton Review, scoring a 98 out of a possible 99 for its environmental policies and practices. Read the full story


Cynthia Brandt Stover Appointed Mills College Vice President for Institutional Advancement

July 29, 2009 - Mills College proudly announces the appointment of Cynthia Brandt Stover to the position of vice president for institutional advancement, commencing October 1, 2009. Read the full story


Mills College Alumna Receives Fulbright Award

July 10, 2009 - Mills College alumna Belinda Perez has received a Fulbright Award to study and teach in the Czech Republic. Read the full story


Mills College Participates in National Educational Program for Veterans

July 9, 2009 - Mills College is offering one of the most generous educational opportunities in the state of California by participating in the Yellow Ribbon Program for veterans. Read the full story


Mills College Recognized Fourth Year in a Row by the Fiske Guide to Colleges

July 9, 2000 - For the fourth consecutive year, Mills College has been included in the selective college guide, the Fiske Guide to Colleges 2010, which reviews only 330 of the best and most interesting institutions nationwide.
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Mills College Elects New Board Chair

June 26, 2009 - Members of the Mills College Board of Trustees elected Kathleen J. Burke as the new chair of the board at their May 2009 meeting. Burke replaced Vivian Stephenson, who stepped down to become a Mills College Honorary Lifetime Trustee.
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Mills College Radio Students’ Programs on West Oakland Airing on KALW

June 15, 2009 - The Mills College Public Radio Reporting students' programs on West Oakland are currently airing on KALW 91.7 FM. Read the full story


Mills Trustee Tom Ehrlich Speaks at National Democracy Conference

June 12, 2009 - Mills College Trustee Thomas Ehrlich is speaking at the 7th Annual American Democracy Project (ADP) National Meeting, held in Baltimore from June 11–13, 2009. His talk Civic Work 2.0: Using Digital Media to Promote Student Civic Engagement is part of the conference's theme "Diversity and Civic Engagement." Read the full story


Mills College Art Exhibition Reveals Newly Discovered Japanese Prints

June 1, 2009 - The Mills College Art Museum is pleased to present Reverberations: Japanese Prints of the 1923 Kanto Earthquake curated by Mills College Visiting Assistant Professor Deborah Stein and the Mills College Museum Studies Workshop, on view from June 17 through August 2, 2009. Read the full story


Mills Students Selected for Financial Women's Association Scholarships

June 1, 2009 - For the fifth year in a row, the Financial Women's Association (FWA) of San Francisco has chosen Mills College students among its scholarship recipients. This year, three students who plan a career in finance or financial services were selected for the prestigious honor. Read the full story


Mills Professor Pauline Oliveros Honored for Lifetime Achievement

May 29, 2009 - Becoming the first woman to receive the William Schuman Award, Mills College visiting professor of music Pauline Oliveros has received a lifetime achievement honor awarded by the School of the Arts at Columbia University. Read the full story


Mills College Alumnus Receives Pulitzer Prize for Music

May 25, 2009 - Mills College alumnus Steve Reich, MA '63, received a Pulitzer Prize for music for his composition Double Sextet. The award recognizes "distinguished musical composition by an American that has had its first performance or recording in the United States during the year." Read the full story


Mills College English Department Welcomes Two New Faculty Members

May 25, 2009 - The Mills College English Department welcomes two new faculty members whose creative writing perspectives will enrich the program's long history of writers with powerful voices. Starting August 2009, Patricia Powell joins the faculty as an associate professor of English, and Faith Adiele as a distinguished visiting writer. Read the full story


Mills College President to Speak at National Diversity Conference

May 22, 2009 - Mills College President Janet L. Holmgren will speak at the 22nd Annual National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE), the leading national forum for diversity and access in higher education. Read the full story


Statement from Mills College on UC Berkeley Data Theft

May 8, 2009 - Mills College students who were eligible for or utilized health services through UC Berkeley’s University Health Services (UHS) since 2001 have been exposed to an electronic data breach of personally identifiable information. It has been confirmed that hackers were able to steal Social Security numbers, health insurance information, and non-treatment medical information such as UHS medical record numbers, dates of visits, or names of providers from electronic databases belonging to UC Berkeley.  Read the full story


Mills College First Nursing Students Embark on New Careers

May 5, 2009 - The Mills College first nursing cohort will graduate with their bachelor of science in nursing degrees on May 22 from Samuel Merritt University. Eleven students will be part of the new generation of nurses who will become leaders in their profession.
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Kavita Ramdas to Speak at Mills College Commencement

April 28, 2009 - Mills College will present its 121st Commencement on Saturday, May 16, 2009 with an address given by Kavita Ramdas from the Global Fund for Women. The ceremony will begin at 9:45 am on Toyon Meadow with a graduating class that includes 270 undergraduate women and 237 graduate women and men, as well as students receiving certificates and credentials in a variety of fields.. Read the full story


Mills College President Janet L. Holmgren Named Among Bay Area’s Most Influential Women

April 27, 2009 - Janet L. Holmgren, Mills College President, has been named among the "Bay Area's Most Influential Women in Business" by the San Francisco Business Times. She was featured in the April 24–30, 2009 issue. Read the full story


Mills College Selected by Goldman Sachs as Educational Partner in 10,000 Women Initiative

April 17, 2009 - The Lorry I. Lokey Graduate School of Business at Mills College has been selected as a partner to participate in the Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Women initiative, a global philanthropic program designed to increase the number of underserved women receiving a business and management education. Read the full story


Renowned Painter Mary Heilmann Speaks at Mills College

March 23, 2009 - The Mills College Art Department's annual Correnah Wright art lecture will feature artist Mary Heilmann on April 16 at 7:30 pm at the Littlefield Concert Hall, 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA 94613. The event is free and all members of the public are invited. Read the full story


Mills College Swim Team Wraps Up Season with High GPAs and Strong Character

March 13, 2009 - The Mills College swimming team has wrapped up its season by making the top 10 list among NCAA Division III institutions with the highest grade point averages for fall 2008. It also won the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Buffalo Funds Five Star Champions of Character award for exemplary character and sportsmanship. Read the full story


Mills College Debuts First Conference on Socially Responsible Business Models

March 11, 2009 -  The Lorry I. Lokey Graduate School of Business at Mills College and its Center for Socially Responsible Business are hosting their first annual conference on Friday, April 10, 2009. Read the full story


Mills College Student Newspaper Reaps State Awards

March 11, 2009 - Mills College's student newspaper, the Campanil, won the top journalism award in its division for general newspaper excellence as well as first place in nine other categories. The bi-weekly publication received a total of 15 honors awarded by the California College Media Association at its Feb. 28 ceremony. Read the full story


Mills College Music Department featured in the Los Angeles Times.

February 9, 2009 -  The Mills College Music Department and upcoming music festival Giving Free Play to the Imagination was prominently featured in the February 8, 2009 issue of the Los Angeles Times.Read the full story


Mills College Receives Presidential Honor for Service

February 9, 2009 - Mills College has been named to the 2008 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary public service for a second year in a row. Read the full story


Mills College Celebrates Music during Black History Month

February 3, 2009 - Mills College kicks off Black History Month with a rich series of musical celebrations. Highlights include a public guest lecture by musical innovator Muhal Richard Abrams and a historic duet performance with Mills College music professor Roscoe Mitchell. All events will be held at Mills College, 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA. Read the full story





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